WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 327

and poultry of every kind from going at large; for controlling
the erection and location of buildings, fences, stock inclosures,
and for prohibiting and controlling the use of powder, fire-
arms, firecrackers and other explosives; for the controlling
of the repairs of any buildings when repaired to the extent
of new roof or weather-boarding; for the protection of public
property and sidewalks and streets and to regulate the use
of the same, including the rate of speed over them, and to
protect shade or ornamental trees from injury or obstruc-
tions ; for the paving of sidewalks, and assessing and taxing
the expense thereof in whole or in part upon the respective
owners of the property fronting thereon; for the regulating
of the running of traction engines through said town and
prescribing the kind of fuel to be used therein; for the laying
of sewers or other drains and to regulate the use thereof,
and to enter into contracts with property owners for the
use thereof for a term of one or more years, and to provide
in said contract for the collection of any rents or other sums
of money charged by said Commissioners for the use thereof,
which rents or other charges shall be a lien upon the property
connected with said sewer, and shall be collected by the bailiff
as taxes levied by said Commissioners are collected; for li-
cense or tax on public exhibitions or amusements of all kinds,
billiards, pool or bagatelle tables and ten-pin alleys, and for
the collection of the same; for a tax on persons for every
dog kept by them, and to cause any dog to be killed; for tax
on telephone, telegraph and electric light poles; for the pro-
motion of the morality, health, convenience and safety of
the inhabitants of said town; and for the opening, widening,
extending, repairing, improving and closing up of streets,
lanes or alleys, or for the laying of any sewers or opening
of any drains over private property, shall be determined and
assessed by three disinterested persons, residents of said
town, to be appointed by said Commissioners, who shall with-
in a reasonable time after the notification of their appoint-
ment take an oath before a justice of the peace or notary
public for Caroline County that they will faithfully, fairly
and without partiality or prejudice, value or assess in money
the loss and damage to be suffered and incurred, as well as
benefits to be received by any person interested in the prop-
erty over, through and near said street, lane, alley, sewer
or drain to be opened, closed, extended, widened or improved,
and they shall return the same in writing, under their hands
and seals, with a certificate of their qualifications, before a
justice of the peace or notary public as aforesaid to the said
Commissioners, which said valuation and assessment shall
be ratified or rejected by the said Commissioners, as they
in their judgment may deem proper; and if any person shall